‘I love an excuse to get DRESSED UP!'
WOMAN'S WEEKLY|July 14, 2020
Michelle Collins reveals how lipstick helps her through lockdown
ROZ LEWIS
‘I love an excuse to get DRESSED UP!'

She rose to fame as Cindy Beale in EastEnders in 1988 and later had a stint on Coronation Street, playing landlady Stella Price from 2011. But Michelle Collins has now admitted she could return to either one.

‘I’d never say never about going into a soap. I’m a jobbing actor and I want to be versatile and to be challenged,’ she says. ‘I know that sounds crazy at 59, but I still want to play so many different roles in the theatre and on the TV.’

Sadly for Michelle, this year’s Covid-19 crisis has seen the end of two projects she had lined up.

She says, ‘I only did just over a week of rehearsals for The Birthday Party, which was due to tour the UK, before that was cancelled, and I was going to take a one-woman show, Motorhome Marilyn, to the Edinburgh Fringe.’

So, with all her work on hold, Michelle turned to Instagram to keep herself busy, dressing up to cook a few times a week.

‘Any excuse to get dressed up and put some lippy on and do my hair,’ she laughs. ‘Let’s face it, there is nowhere else to go at the moment!’

This story is from the July 14, 2020 edition of WOMAN'S WEEKLY.

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